Preview: Call + Response (2008)

• Poster: C+

Review:

While the slight image of a band playing adds some weight to the poster, the strips of slate/metal-gray pieces of paper across the poster is strongly at odds with the softer images behind, making the contrast a bit too harsh.

• Trailer: B

Review:

The production values are severely limited, but the subject is too important not to hope for the film's success. Exploring the modern slave trade has been discussed in some films in the recent past, but this shows a greater concern for ending the industry, even if it's only through the power of music.

Oscar Prospects:

This is the kind of documentary that might air as part of a television special, not as part of an Oscar nominees reel.

Release Date:

• October 10, 2008

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (September 28, 2008) Original